From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE, MSGID_SHORT,REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!seismo!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!sei.cmu.edu!firth From: firth@sei.cmu.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: General Ada questions Message-ID: <859@aw.sei.cmu.edu.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 3-Apr-87 10:19:10 EST Article-I.D.: aw.859 Posted: Fri Apr 3 10:19:10 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Apr-87 04:35:24 EST References: <870331-091247-2425@Xerox> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu Reply-To: firth@bd.sei.cmu.edu.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Distribution: world Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, SEI, Pgh, Pa List-Id: In article <870331-091247-2425@Xerox> Felton.pa@XEROX.COM writes: > > Here are a few quick questions for you Ada programmers out there. > > Does Ada support... > > Procedures passed as parameters? > Return of multiple values from procedures? > Automatic dereferencing of pointers? > Monitors? > Dynamically allocated arrays with length determined at run time? > Programmer definable machine representation of data structures? > (i.e. specifying which bits are used to hold a given field of a record.) > > > >Thanks, >John Answers to these and many other questions can be found in Reference manual for the Ada programming language (Mil-Std-1815a). Why should we do your hack work?